Archive for 2023
November 27, 2023
TWO BLOOMBERGS IN ONE!
Shot:
Gasoline prices across America have fallen for 60 consecutive days. It’s the longest downward streak in more than a year and one which has arrived just in time for the holiday shopping season. Now that drivers aren’t forking over so much cash at the pump, retailers are hoping they’ll hand over the savings at the mall instead. A gallon of gasoline now costs $3.25 on average, more than 60 cents below the year’s peak in mid-September and about 30 cents cheaper than this time last year, according to data from the American Automobile Association. In 14 states, average prices are now less than $3 a gallon. Cheaper pump prices aren’t exactly good news in the struggle to slow global warming, but they’re likely welcome by President Joe Biden, whose reelection campaign has been based in part on the economy’s resilience through the pandemic, record low unemployment and steadily slowing inflation. While some polls indicate that last bit has yet to register with most consumers, lower gas prices are about as high profile as it gets. And one sign that cash is already flowing from gas stations to PlayStations came this weekend: US consumers spent a record $9.8 billion online during Black Friday.
—“Cheap gas for Christmas,” Bloomberg Evening [Email] Briefing, today.
Chaser: The Earth Wants Biden to Keep Gas Prices High. There’s one bold move President Biden could make to curb climate change: Find a way to put a $5-a-gallon floor on gasoline prices.
—Headline, Bloomberg.com, July 20th, 2022.
Flashbacks:
● 2008 L.A. Times headline: “The joy of $8 gas.”
● “Under my plan, energy costs will necessarily skyrocket…”
In other words, Obama administration retreads are following the same playbook as the original Obama administration: “We’re going to keep at it to ensure the American people are paying their fair share for gas,” is the perfect Kinsley Gaffe for an Obama administration retread like Biden: As Steven Chu, Obama’s then-incoming energy secretary, told the Wall Street Journal in the fall of 2008: “Somehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe.”
So despite Biden claiming last year that high gas prices are Putin’s fault, is it fair to ask if Biden himself is on the payroll of Putin? As Walter Russell Mead wrote in 2017:
If Trump were the Manchurian candidate that people keep wanting to believe that he is, here are some of the things he’d be doing:
Limiting fracking as much as he possibly could
Blocking oil and gas pipelines
Opening negotiations for major nuclear arms reductions
Cutting U.S. military spending
Trying to tamp down tensions with Russia’s ally Iran.
“Yep,” Glenn added in late 2019. “You know who did do these things? Obama. You know who supports these things now? Democrats.”
● Team Biden might be purposefully grinding down the middle class.
HMM: Cutting Back on One Amino Acid Increases Lifespan of Middle-Aged Mice Up to 33%. “Isoleucine is one of three branched-chain amino acids we use to build proteins in our bodies. It is essential for our survival, but since our cells can’t produce it from scratch, we have to get it from sources like eggs, dairy, soy protein and meats. But there can always be too much of a good thing. Earlier research using data from a 2016-2017 survey of Wisconsin residents found dietary isoleucine levels were linked with metabolic health and that people with higher BMIs were generally consuming much greater quantities of the amino acid.”
Isoleucine is a popular bodybuilding supplement, and I’ve considered taking it. I think I’ll give it a pass.
THERE SHOULD BE TRIALS:
Senior US health official, tormented by conscience, reveals dangerous lab work behind Covid that Fauci covered up.https://t.co/xkdYIHPXjo
— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) November 27, 2023
MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN: George Floyd’s death led to a racial reckoning — where’s the antisemitism reckoning?
MICHAEL WALSH: WTF? “Indeed, it might better said that the ability to hold two contradictory ideas in one’s head and thinking you retain the ability to function is the test of a ninth-rate intelligence, and in fact explains many of the problems that currently plague this third act of American life. Here are three.”
REAL ESTATE: Everything is going swimmingly. “This is the uncomfortable equilibrium the market finds itself in today. Nobody’s selling because nobody’s buying. Nobody’s buying because nobody’s selling. Nobody can afford to sell. Nobody can afford to buy. Prices are high; mortgage costs are high. Rents are high, too, and there’s not a huge amount of rental inventory. Everyone’s stuck and paying more than they want to.”
SO READING TO YOUR KID IN THE WOMB ISN’T SO DUMB: Language heard while still in the womb found to impact brain development.
LIFE IN THE BLUE ZONES: New York City’s Police Department Imploding.
CYBER MONDAY DEAL: Crest 3D Whitestrips, Professional Effects Plus. #CommissionEarned
CHECK ME OUT AT MY MOST CYNICAL AND DEPRESSED ABOUT THE STATE OF FREE SPEECH ON CAMPUS ON DAD SAVES AMERICA!
“Parents should be less worried about their kid being canceled than about their kid being a canceler.”
SPEED TEST: 0 to 150 to 0.
READER FAVORITE: ThermoPro Lightning 1-Second Instant Read Meat Thermometer. #CommissionEarned
THIS IS A FAILURE I WOULD HAVE LOVED AS A KID BUT JUST LEARNED ABOUT TODAY: Marty Krofft and Atlanta’s Colossal Failure. “In May 1976, the Kroffts opened The World of Sid and Marty Krofft, an indoor amusement park inside the Omni International Complex. It was an ambitious opening, with national fanfare, including a broadcast on the ‘Krofft Supershow’ featuring the park.”
SCIENCE IS EVERYWHERE: How AI could help optimize nutrient consistency in donated human breast milk.
ROCKY MOUNTAIN HIGH: Colorado ranks 17th in nation with $6.4K per capita in state, local taxes.
We’d be in even worse shape without the Taxpayers Bill of Rights (TABOR) — which Democrats in Denver continue chipping away at.
WAR IS PEACE, FREEDOM IS SLAVERY: Irish Green Party Sen. Pauline O’Reilly boasts, “We are restricting freedom, but we are doing it for the common good:”
Irish Green Party Sen. Pauline O’Reilly defended a controversial bill that could jail citizens for merely possessing material that criticizes gender identity.
The Irish Criminal Justice Bill purportedly targets “hate speech,” but some critics have compared it to the concept of punishing people for “thought crime,” a term popularized by George Orwell’s dystopian novel “1984.”
The text of the “Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill 2022,” notes that a person can be imprisoned if they “prepare or possess” material that is “likely to incite violence or hatred against a person or a group of persons on account of their protected characteristics,” one of which being “gender” identity.
The Catholic Herald observed in past months that the legislation could lead to criminalization of Catholic teaching and religious expression in general, “The Catholic Church has long-standing objective positions on issues, which, if they are to be uttered in public (and that may include the pulpit), may cause the priest or other adherent to be made subject to prosecution.”
O’Reilly defended the bill in a speech on Tuesday as she debated its merits with her peers, even as she condemned some of their rhetoric on “gender or sexual identities.” After suggesting social media has “fueled hatred” and revealed the “dirty, filthy, underbelly of hatred in Irish society,” O’Reilly argued that hate speech legislation is merely another necessary law to restrict freedom for the “common good.”
You went full Hillary, Sen. O’Reilly. Never go full Hillary: “We are going to take things away from you for the common good.”
Finally, George, what are your thoughts on the above story?
ELECTIONS DON’T RIG THEMSELVES, YOU KNOW: What Will Be the COVID of 2024?
BECAUSE THE GREENS HATE YOU AND WANT YOUR LIFE TO BE WORSE: Why Does My ‘Efficient’ Dishwasher Take a Zillion Minutes for a Load?
For months, Donna King experimented with the various settings of her washing machine, trying to get her clothes to stop coming out covered in detergent residue. In the era of tightening water and energy standards, King thinks the machine just doesn’t use enough water, with clothes emerging nearly dry to the touch.
She regularly runs her T-shirts through the machine a second time. The hairstylist in Oak Ridge, Tenn., sometimes brings laundry loads into work to use the heavy duty setup there.
“I’m all for saving the environment but this ain’t the way to do it, if you got to do something two or three times,” the 59-year-old said. “The standard is great on paper, but when it comes to practical and real life situations, it’s a bunch of s—.”
Indeed it is.
Plus: “The average standard cycle time for a dishwasher has increased from around 70 minutes in 1983 to 160 minutes this year.”
FASTER, PLEASE: Groundbreaking biomaterial can regenerate bone and teeth, study finds. “The key breakthrough lies in the role of cobalt in osteoblast differentiation, a process critical to bone formation. Professor Willian Fernando Zambuzzi, a biochemist at IBB-UNESP and the senior author of the article, elaborated on their discovery, stating, ‘For the first time, our data produced sufficient evidence based on hypoxia [low levels of oxygen in tissue] that we may have a novel biomimetic material with the potential to regenerate bone tissue.'”
NEW CIVILITY WATCH: Atlanta Rioter: ‘My Gender Is a Loaded Gun Pointed at Capitalism’s Heart.’
Rioters with the “Stop Cop City” movement in Atlanta face domestic terrorism and racketeering charges for repeated attempts to stop the lawful construction of a police and firefighter training facility, including the use of Molotov cocktails to harm police officers and damage construction equipment.
The newly revealed journal of Manuel Esteban Páez Terán, an agitator who reportedly opened fire at police before officers fatally shot him on Jan. 18, reveals how climate alarmism and leftist grievance motivated a written desire to become “ungovernable” and kill police officers. Among other things, he wrote, “My gender is a loaded gun pointed at capitalism’s heart.”
I’d do the usual mock queries about why this story wasn’t plastered over the DNC-MSM, but at this point, I think we all know the answer:
